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Maximize Your Dental Scrap Returns  The first step in maximizing your return is knowing what you are sending to us.

Keep track of your scrap processing in your lab. Where can your alloy loss be converted to scrap recovery? Take a hard look at your processes; your lab may literally be throwing money away! Do you have separate suction systems for precious and non-precious work? Do you save all of your wipes (paper towels, rags) used to clean your lab and around benches? Are you keeping your vacuum cleaner bags, filters from your suction and air conditioning system? Are you getting a new carpet in your lab? If so, send the old carpet to us to be burned for metal content.

What to Collect / Send in: Send us any and all materials with a substantial precious metal content. Be sure to separate the meltable/high grade metals from the burnable/low grade.

Examples of metallic or high grade dental scrap are:
  • Extracted bridges and crowns
  • Miscasts
  • Casting sprues
  • Buttons
  • Bench grinds
  • Platinum foil (package separate & identify)
  • Platinum wire from old muffles
  • Pure alloys not used in the lab
  • Coins
  • Old jewelry

Examples of non-metallic or low grade dental scrap materials are:
  • Wipes/paper towels
  • Filters
  • Vacuum bags
  • Floor sweeps
  • Electroplating solution (mix with speedy dry or cat litter for shipping)
  • Crucibles
  • Carpeting and other woven materials in the lab that might collect metal dust

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